An assistant agent for monitoring collaborative groups dynamics

Abstract

The use of computers in the Collaborative Learning (AC) domain, allowed defining new scenarios for teaching and learning, creating Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (ACSC) systems focus on group dynamics to facilitate learning. Within a group effective collaboration is conditioned, among other factors, behaviors or roles that its members expressed during the working dynamics of the group. This paper aims to develop a software agent to analyze the participation of students in a group, recognize the phases evolving dynamics of group work and roles students to work collaboratively. To do this, a recognized theory of team roles was analyzed and the algorithms needed for the agent to perform the proposed monitoring are being designed. These algorithms are coded and integrated with the agent in an application, and then validate their operation through experiences made with collaborative groups of students.